The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)
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The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)
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#2I couldn't tell when this was written. It appears to be from 1993:
http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/manifestos/cryptoanarc...
Edit: See comments below. Turns out it's from 1988.
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#3I don't understand the barbed wire metaphor. Couldn't crypto have the effect of putting content that would otherwise be freely available in the current internet behind monetary barriers? Couldn't cryptocurrencies enable further control by monopolizing media industries? The technology is powerful, whether or not it will be liberating is to be determined.
Edit: didn't realize this was from 1993! Amazing to read that perspective!
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#4"To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial."
- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819
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#5I don't understand the barbed wire metaphor. Couldn't crypto have the effect of putting content that would otherwise be freely available in the current internet behind monetary barriers? Couldn't cryptocurrencies enable further control by monopolizing media industries? The technology is powerful, whether or not it will be liberating is to be determined. Edit: didn't realize this was from 1993! Amazing to read that pe…
Crypto would enable inbuilt content use payment system if the user wants to pay, and reap additional benefits - freemium model
Industries wont be monopolized cause forking and launching decentralised code would be free and instant.
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#6I couldn't tell when this was written. It appears to be from 1993: http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/manifestos/cryptoanarc... Edit: See comments below. Turns out it's from 1988.
1988, actually: The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by
Timothy C. May - http://nakamotoinstitute.org/crypto-anarchist-manifesto/
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#7I couldn't tell when this was written. It appears to be from 1993: http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/manifestos/cryptoanarc... Edit: See comments below. Turns out it's from 1988.
Yep. I remember when it was published. I was on the Cypherpunks list back then, and it was a fascinating group for a while.
Tim May was a vocal, eloquent proponent of anarcho-capitalism[1], and believed that crypto and the net were crucial tools that would tip the balance of power between the individual and the state, cause an erosion of tax-collection powers, and eventually tip the world into a mode of 'voluntary' interaction that others, myself included, argued is indistinguishable from feudalism.
[1] For those of you who are aware of the various minute distinctions made around these schools of thought, May proposed a very "hard" form, arguing that 'voluntary' agreement to slavery and whatnot were perfectly acceptable.
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#8> The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders...
Bitcoin
Silkroad
The crypto wars
The crypto wars 2: The empire strikes back
and that's just one poignant sentence in the fairly small but very accurate manifesto.
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#9I've lived it for several decades. It's a very exciting time to be alive!
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#10I don't understand the barbed wire metaphor. Couldn't crypto have the effect of putting content that would otherwise be freely available in the current internet behind monetary barriers? Couldn't cryptocurrencies enable further control by monopolizing media industries? The technology is powerful, whether or not it will be liberating is to be determined. Edit: didn't realize this was from 1993! Amazing to read that pe…
It was very interesting! They nailed a number of points there in terms of the prominence of certain techs.
They missed a big one, though. Today it was announced in the New York Times that Goldman Sachs is backing a payment fintech startup that operates on a public blockchain. JP Morgan, BNY Mellon, Credit Suisse, ING, are all involved in the EEA. Big money is making its way into cryptocurrencies presently. Groups like GS are fairly responsible for a lot of those barbed wire fences, and usually for their own gain.